Which meant two of their favorite targets were no longer on their radar. That perk helped cement my friendships with Andy and Lucas.A few months passe... and we came to the long weekend. Andy needed to stay home. His mother had a job for the weekend so he would be babysitting his little brother. She denied permission for him to have friends over.I spent the first day hanging out at Lucas’s house. He lived close to our house as the crow flies, but thanks to how the roads were laid out it took a. A couple of glasses of wine usually saw one of them whisked away to the cloak room for a forbidden kiss. The young ones sought to be talked about and Doctor Clay gave them their place as gossip.Lady Cynthia followed out of cab. She wore a brown dress of frills of the time and fashion, but the leather corset and straps worked into the dress created an image of armour. Lady Cynthia was a woman of action. She stepped out into the cobbled street on her heeled boots that ran up and concealed. "Look," I said to her, and she did with a gasp."It's him," she moaned. "Why did Captain Foster send just you? There's usually a half-dozen of them. They'll expect to be fed. Oh Lord." She wrung her hands and gripped my arms. "Go hide," she said to me. "Up in the attic."I watched the officer come striding to the back door and heard him let himself in. "Cecelia," he yelled. "Whose horse is in the barn?"When he walked into the room, I grabbed him by the lapels. "It's mine," I said, lifting him by. ”“It’s certainly exciting,” Emma said, “do you still get excited doing it?” She asked Karen.“Always,” she replied, “that’s probably why l’ve never been successful in relationships, let’s face it, what man wants his performance compared to a dog all the time, especially when he gets told that the dog does it better.”They both laughed. “Anyone would be better in bed than my husband,” Emma said, “but despite that l still love him, l feel a bit guilty about what l’m doing with Daddy.”“Don’t be,”.